Smart Cards

1. Technology Requirements of a Smart Card What is a Smart Card? Before I outline the technology requirements of the project, I think it is helpful to define what exactly a smart card is. The actual term smart card comes from France. It was during a period of national investment and modernisation in France during the 1970's which led to the development of the Carte a Memoire. This was later renamed by the governments marketing department …

…to implement this first stage at the start of semester two, giving staff seven months to iron out any difficulties between then and September and to allow for the remaining infrastructure (such as additional card readers) to be installed. As card readers are installed, each should be rigorously tested and all types of information be loaded onto the card. In concluding, the evidence appears to be strongly in favour of the implementation of smart cards.